{"id":578034,"date":"2024-02-14T00:38:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T07:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=578034"},"modified":"2024-02-14T06:13:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T13:13:57","slug":"world-championships-day-4-prelims-women-canadaingrid-wilm-tops-qualifiers-in-50m-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-women-canadaingrid-wilm-tops-qualifiers-in-50m-back\/","title":{"rendered":"World Championships, Day 4 Prelims (Women): Ingrid Wilm Tops Qualifiers in 50 Back; Helena Bach Leads 200 Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Championships, Day 4 Prelims (Women): Canada’s Ingrid Wilm Tops Qualifiers in 50m back<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canadian Ingrid Wilm<\/strong> \u2013 bronze on night three in the 100m backstroke tops the qualifiers into the semi-finals of the 50m backstroke on night four in Doha.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old stopped the clock in 27.81 to win heat four with heat five winner, sprint specialist, Lauren Cox<\/strong> (Great Britain) next in 27.89.<\/p>\n

But lurking in the shadows is US is three-time World Championship gold medallist, Claire Curzan<\/strong> (27.99) who won gold in the 100 backstroke here on Night Three and silver medallist, Australia\u2019s Iona Anderson<\/strong> (28.02), the 2023 World Junior champion.<\/p>\n

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Just 0.78 seconds separates the top five qualifiers into the women’s 200m butterfly semi-finals with \u00a0Denmark’s 23-year-old Helena Bach<\/strong> (2:09.21) setting the target in heat one with Britain’s Commonwealth Games silver medallist Laura Stephens<\/strong> taking heat two in 2:09.31 followed by the youngest \u00a0swimmer in the field, China’s Ma Yonghui<\/strong> (2:09.50) at just 17.<\/p>\n

They will also have to contend with evergreen Hungarian – 2019 world champion from Gwangju and Rio Olympic bronze medallist over 800m freestyle, Boglarka Kapas<\/strong> – who is the oldest in the field at 30 years of age – the fifth fastest qualifier in 2:09.99.<\/p>\n

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